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toyota is voluntarily recalling more than seven million vehicles worldwide, including some yaris, corolla and camry models, over faulty window switches.
因窗口开关问题,丰田公司将在全世界主动召回700多万辆汽车,包括部分雅力士、卡罗拉和凯美瑞车型。
it affects 1.39 million cars in europe - 138,000 in the uk - 2.47 million in the us and 1.4 million in china.
it is the biggest single recall since 1 called back eight million vehicles in 1996.
toyota said there had been no reports of accidents, injuries or deaths as a result of the window problem.
toyota is also recalling 459,000 vehicles in japan, 650,000 in australia and asia, as well as hundreds of thousands from across the middle east, and from within canada and its other, smaller markets around the world.
the number of vehicles being recalled is roughly the same as its sales for the whole of its last financial year.
the carmaker did not say how much the recall would cost.
the range of toyota cars 2 worldwide include certain models of the yaris, vios, corolla, matrix, auris, camry, rav4, 3, 4, 5, xb and xd produced between 2005 and 2010.
in the uk, the models affected are the rav4, yaris, auris and corolla.
it will be contacting drivers with the affected models over the coming weeks and asking them to bring their car in for checks to see if there is a fault.
toyota said fixing the switch should take about 40 minutes.
the customer services director for toyota gb, steve settle, apologised to customers for the anxiety the problem had caused, but 6 them that tests had shown there was little danger.
"what we're talking about is the power switch on the driver's door and there is a very, very outside chance that there could be melting inside the switch," he said.
"but there are some vehicle agencies around the world that interpret melting as fire. we've no evidence of fire and our engineer testing of this item doesn't reveal any chance of fire."
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